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Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute - http://fsi.org.za - founded in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. Jacques is a regular contributor to public debates on politics, science and morality in the South African media, via columns, op-eds, television and radio. He blogs on these and other topics on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za - and is active on Twitter as @JacquesR . He believes that the world be a far better place if nobody wanted to read clickbait, and could all explain why.

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Computational propaganda, clickbait, and personal responsibility 0
- Civil Liberties, Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Media, Social Media
- 11.01.2019.
The proliferation of misinformation on social media – or even just partisan or sensationalistic treatments of politics, science and human relations – could reasonably be considered a threat to democracy itself. When you add computation propaganda to the mix, where bots are deployed to manipulate public opinion, filter-bubbles form even more readily, and you can
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COPE and the Civil Union Act know South Africa 0
- Governance, Human Rights, South Africa, Women Empowerment, Women Rights
- 02.01.2019.
In addition to her Private Members Bill on Advance Directives, Deirdre Carter of COPE has also been pushing for changes to the Civil Union Act, and I’m pleased to report that the Parliamentary committee meeting (15/08) seems to have gone well, with all present agreeing that Section 6 of the Act needs to be reconsidered. Section 6, for
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Judge Learned Hand and Liberalism 0
- Civil Liberties, Liberalism
- 26.12.2018.
“Judge Learned Hand” reads like a Zen koan or something, but he was in fact an American judge, who has been “quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge“. Yes, that is (most of) his real name – the full version is Billings Learned Hand.
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On Helen Zille and identity politics “destroying freedom”.0
- culture, Democracy, Feminism
- 07.11.2018.
September 17, 2018’s Daily Maverick includes an opinion piece by the Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, who asserts that identity politics is “destroying freedom”. The short version of this response to some of her claims might read something like “sure, identity politics might compromise freedom in some of its extreme manifestations, but never as reliably as racism,
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- 09.06.2016.
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- 03.02.2016.
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- 08.12.2015.
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